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The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of old New York, written over the course of Wharton's career, which focus on themes about the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged.

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Short storiesFiction

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Online version:Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.New York stories of Edith Wharton.New York : New York Review Books, c2007(OCoLC)608387041Online version:Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.New York stories of Edith Wharton.New York : New York Review Books, c2007(OCoLC)608471693

Mrs. Manstey's view --
That good may come --
The portrait --
A cup of cold water --
A journey --
The Rembrandt --
The other two --
The quicksand --
The dilettante --
The reckoning --
Expiation --
The pot-boiler --
His father's son --
Full circle --
Autres temps --
The long run --
After Holbein --
Diagnosis --
Pomegranate seed --
Roman fever.

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The first collection to focus on what was perhaps Edith Wharton's greatest and most enduring subject, her native city.Read more...

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"If these stories have a defining subject (other than New York) it is divorce, which begins to replace art as Wharton's excuse for discussing the fashionable and the real. In fact, one of the pleasures of a collection like this is that you can trace her tendencies in it? and the way they develop." --"Time Literary Supplement""Edith Wharton, whose deft portraits of the upper class are taken as definitive accounts of the late 19th century, remains one of the most potent names in the literature of New York." -"The New York Times" (Christopher Gray)"Wharton was Old New York...[her family] belonged to that tiny but powerful New York clan...who clung together, intermarried, set the tone and made the rules for society in Manhattan...Her New York fiction spans the years from, roughly, 1840 through the turn of the century-from before her birth, in other words, through the Civil War and beyond into the Gilded Age, an era of tremendous transformation in American society." -"The New York Times" (Charles McGrath)"Yet for all her reservations about New York, Wharton still visited and...she continued to set most of her books and stories here-in a remembered New York and what she imagined to be the New York of her parents and grandparents. The city became for her a social topography and a deep vein to be mined, both a real place and a symbolic landscape." -"The New York Times" (Charles McGrath)"Mrs. Wharton had her turf, that almost sepia New York, to be turned over and over again, like setting the plow to the family farm every spring." -"The New York Review of Books" (Elizabeth Hardwick)"New York City [is] the setting of Wharton's finest fictions." -"The New York Observer"Read more...

"The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of old New York, written over the course of Wharton's career, which focus on themes about the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged."@en